Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:43:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disk slicing warning - Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' Message-ID: <20020907054316.GJ2767@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020906212141.L1875-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> References: <20020906212141.L1875-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 06), Peter Leftwich said: > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 8190945 8191007 ad1s1 2 fat 6 > 8191008 8290800 16481807 ad1s2 2 fat 6 > ?ŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽ Disk slicing warning: ŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽ¨ > ?Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' ? > Press F1 for info about fdisk 100% etc > > In /stand/sysinstall and in the fdisk screen I got the above error. > Pressing F1 does not explain this error message, and there is no thread to > this from the archive: MS-DOS and Windows only recognise one FAT filesystem in the primary partitions. All other FAT filesystems must be in extended partitions. FreeBSD doesn't care. The error message is badly worded :) > PS - sysinstall had a very appropriate caveat about how fdisk doesn't > actually format other Subtypes (such as FAT), it only reserves the space > for other tools to do so. Is there an "mtools or mformat" type of tool to > format for msdos or FAT or FAT16 (same thing?) or FAT32? Thanks peeps! You can use newfs_msdos. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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